Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0At 2.7 visits per person served, Prince Rupert Library is quieter than 92% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Prince Rupert Library serves 14,483 people from a single building. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B+Civic life#133 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Prince Rupert’s civic life grade
Prince Rupert gets a B+ for civic life, #133 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Prince Rupert: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
34 registered charities give a Prince Rupert mailing address
It works out to 2.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
One figure covers all of British Columbia: in 2023, 36.9% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.2% and 38.7%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on 1 of 2 measures
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 106 visits a day
The year 2025 at Prince Rupert Library, in the library’s own counts.
Prince Rupert’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Prince Rupert.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Prince Rupert
Does Prince Rupert have a public library?
Yes: Prince Rupert Library.
How busy is Prince Rupert Library?
It counted 38,706 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: BC Public Libraries Statistics, 2025. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).